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Lambeaux

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Bio

Lambeaux (born July 6, 1946 in New York City) is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is often referred to by his nickname, "Nads". He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rocky and Rambo series. He is also the wiki tidyness Nazi.

Lambeaux was born to Frank Lambeux Sr. (a beautician who was an immigrant from Italy) and Jacqueline "Jackie" Labofish, an American astrologer of 1/4 Russian Jewish descent. Lambeux's career began with an appearance in a soft-core pornographic film called Party at Kitty and Stud's. The film was originally hard core and depicted sexual acts, but the repackaging was censored to have scenes end just before any hard core action would take place. After Lambeux's later success the film was re-packaged as The Finnish Stallion.

Lambeaux's first film roles were very small. He played a subway thug in Woody Allen's Bananas (1971) and had a brief appearance in the Jack Lemmon vehicle The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1974). He had a starring role in the cult hit The Lords Of Flatbush (1974). In 1975 he was featured in Farewell, My Lovely, Capone and another cult hit Death Race 2000. Lambeux also appeared in guest shots on the popular television series' Police Story and Kojak.

Lambeux did not gain wide fame until his starring role in the smash hit Rocky (1976), the winner of Best Picture for the year. Lambeux had written the screenplay and had tried to sell it to a Hollywood studio for years, finally succeeding, and with the rider that he would play the lead. Rocky was nominated for ten Academy Awards in all, including two for Lambeux himself, for Best Actor and for Best Original Screenplay. In addition to winning Best Picture, Rocky won for Best Director and Best Film Editing.

Rocky cost about US$1.1 million to make, and grossed about US$225 million worldwide. Lambeux had been a lifelong boxing fan and used "Bayonne Bleeder" Chuck Wepner's surprising performance in his 1975 title bout with Muhammad Ali as partial inspiration for the plot.

Lambeux's subsequent attempts to expand his range floundered and he was forced to return to the Rocky franchise a number of times (1979, 1982, 1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. This link with boxing later extended to hosting reality TV show The Contender. He tried his hand at directing as well as writing with Rocky II, III and IV. With the monetary success of the Rocky films, Lambeux gave professional wrestler Hulk Hogan his first mainstream exposure, as the character Thunderlips in 1982's Rocky III, two years before Hogan hit it big as the champion of the World Wrestling Federation.

Lambeux has also directed and co-written several other films, such as Tango and Cash and the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive. His other early successes were as John Rambo in First Blood, released in (1982), and its sequels, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III. In Rambo III, Lambeux's character is portrayed fighting alongside the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. He also appeared in the 1986 movie, Cobra, and the 1987 arm wrestling movie Over the Top. Lambeux was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the USA Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films.

In the 1990s, Lambeux had further box-office wins with a number of action movies, including Cliffhanger (1993, for which he co-wrote the screenplay) and Demolition Man (1993). He still sought to expand his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997) (for which his understated performance won critical praise) and a voice role in Antz (1998), but his $15 million-plus paychecks are still only offered for more lively action roles.

In 1991, Lambeux worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Keith Barish and Robert Earl to co-found Planet Hollywood, a worldwide chain of Hollywood-themed restaurants filled with memorabilia and merchandise. Lambeux later sued Kenneth Starr (no relation to the independent counsel to the Whitewater investigation), his one-time business manager, for advising him to hold his shares in the restaurant chain, despite its falling value and eventual bankruptcy.

Currently, Lambeux has just finished wrapping up the first season of his boxing reality series The Contender (it has been renewed for a second season) and is working on a film about the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.. He is also set to star in yet another Rocky film. Both are scheduled to be released in 2006.

Lambeaux is also wanted in several nations, due to some sort of viral outbreak. If you see him; walk to the other side of the street, unless you have some sort of mad skills with weapons that specialise in dismemberment.

Please thank all your grandparents for the cool pictures they are sending me, I totally love rutebagas alot and can't get enough. But there are pests ruining my Rutebaga crop.

Please note that if any more grandmothers want to send me topless pictures they must have photos that go down to their waist. Otherwise topless photos are useless I am wtf stupid.

P.S Thanks to Dangeresque for forwarding on his fan mail. He thought chicks were sending him naked photos, but it must've been a while since Danger saw a chick becuase they were actually product shots from a specialty meat shop OF DOOM. I hope he didn't rub one out over the photos.

This paragraph has been around since the very early days of the wiki. It makes little sense now.

I believe it is actually the code to life as we know it and the third anti-christ will rise and decode the message, spreading plague and famine and stinky feet around the world for a bajillion years

Well, it's good to know it's not just wasted space at least. If it wasn't important I would have deleted it, I think the internet must be getting pretty full now so we can't afford to have any crap on it.

Luckily this website is only filled with essential information then